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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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April 2014: Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
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Ya, it took some getting used to for me too. I really like epistolary novels but had never read one with so many different sources. Interesting, for sure.
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Great meeting all of you ladies too. Looking forward to next month.
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♡ Kristina wrote: "had a lot of fun today, ladies --- it was really nice to meet Jennifer and Krissy (finally). Looking forward to Casa de Pico next month!!"It was so nice meeting you all. I had a great time and can't wait until next month!!!!!
MONTH: April 2014
TITLE: Where'd You Go Bernadette
SERIES: N/A
AUTHOR: Maria Semple
GENRE: Fiction, Satire/Humor, Epistolary
PAGES: 330
RELEASE DATE: January 1st, 2012
AVG RATING: 3.93 / 5.00 (86.698 votes)
DESCRIPTION:
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle—and people in general—has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.
To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence—creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.